The Wilmingtonian., 1887-02-12
THE :. CENTURY

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about two hundred thousand copies, often
reaching and sometimes exceeding two hun
dred and twenty-five thousand. Chief among
its many attractions for the coming year is q
serial which has been In active preparation
for sixteen years. 1t is history of our own
eountry in It's most critical time, as set forth
in
THE LIFE OF LINCOLN,
BY HIs CONFIDENTIAL sECRErARHEs,
JOHN G. NICOLAx AND COLONEL
JOHN HAY.
This great work, begun, with the sanction
of President Lincoln, and continued under
the authority of his son, the Hon. Robert T.
Lincoln, is the only full and authoritative
cord of the life of Abraham Lincoln. It's
authors were friends Of Lincoln before his
presidency they were most intimately asso-
ciated with him az private secretaries
| throughout his term of Office, and to them
were transferred upon Linooln's death all
his private papers. Here will be told the in.
side history Of the civil war and of President
| Lincoln's administration, important details
| of which have hitherto remained unrevealed,
that they might first appear in this authentic
history. By reason of the publication Of
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THE WAR SERIES,
which has been followed with unfagging in
terest by great audience, will occupy less
space during the coming year. Gettysburg
will be described y'Gen. Hunt (Chief of the
Union Artillery Gen. Longstreet, Gen, r. NJ.
Law, and others Chickamauga, by Gen. D.
| Il. Hill Sherman's March to the Sea, by
Generals Howard and Slocum. Generals @.
A. Gilmore VIM. F. Smith, John Gibbon,
Horace Porter and John s. Mosby will de-
serbia special battles and Incidents. Stories
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will appear.
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''The Hundreth Man, "a novel by Frank r.
Stockton, author of THE Lady, or the Tiger,"
ETC.. begins 10 November. Two novelettes by
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Foote, "Uncle Remus," Julian Hawthorne,
Edward EggleStou, and other prominent
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bearing on the Labor Problem English
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in the American Colonies Men and women
, of Queen Anne's Reign, by Mrs. oliphant
, Clairvoyance, Spirituslism, Astrology, etc.,
by the Rev. j. NJ. Buckley, d. D., editor o.
q the Christian AdUooate astronomical papers
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